Shemah Allah*! LOL!

[eumelia]

Call me morbid, but I find it hilarious that a mass prayer demo organised by Hamas took place at the same time that a mass prayer demo organised by Yesha, as well. Both against the Annapolis Summit.

It made me snort, laugh and point at my television screen and say "Look, finally, fundamentalist Jews and Muslims agree on something!"

Yes, I'm mocking, sue me.

*To any and all religious people who read this blog, no offense is meant by the title, only the mocking of stupid religious fundamentalists, who wouldn't know GDess if He/She/Whatever came and kicked them so rightfully in the ass... that's all I'm sayin'

Comments

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

You? Mock?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

mockmockmockmockmockmockmockmockmock!

You know what they call a substandard democracy?...

A "mocracy" which is often just called a "moc(k)ary".

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Over here, all we get is Cardinal George Pell and Sheik al-Hilaly agreeing on how evil and slutty women are!

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Fundies are dumb, let's throw books at them.

[geekosaur]

Not the first time I've thought they seemed rather similar....

Just my 2 cents' worth

[yossych.livejournal.com]

I'm not offended, since I've been reading your journal for over a year now, and I recognize you as a thinking person, whose views, even though they differ than mine, are not the result of peer pressure/parental pressure/the big black scary media etc.

With that in mind, I'd like to point out just two things:

Not all Israeli citizens living in what is unfortunately called "the territories" (I'm being diplomatic with my choice of words here. In my opinion the legal status of said areas is a historic mistake which cost a lot of Israeli citizens' blood being spilt over the years) are Fundamentalists Jews.
Some are secular.
Some, lean to the socialist and political left - Meretz's voters.
There are even a few who have voted for Hadash. I know this for a fact because my mother worked during the 2001 election in our settlement's polling station. When the counting was done, a few votes were cast for Hadash, and about 5% were for Meretz.

On the other hand, a close friends' father is a religious man who works for http://rhr.israel.net/

I myself am secular and come from a secular family. One should be very careful when tying together religion and politics, since the relationship between the two more often than not is much more complicated than meets the eye.


Regarding Yesha, a lot of settlers feel that the organization does not represent their political views and acts for its own interests, similar to the politicians of the whole state of Israel.
This is especially true after the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%27s_unilateral_disengagement_plan .

After all, politicians will be politicians.
As a man once said: "the best form of government is an autocratic dictatorship ruled by Martians. Except for every other tested method ".

[ephraim-oakes.livejournal.com]

it reminds me of the time before the first planned (but not actualized) world pride in jerusalem, when fundies of every possible stripe (hareidi, sephardic shia, sunni, catholic, eastern orthodox, and on and on) got together at a meeting to denounce the event. such a warm and fuzzy feeling that hating on gays brought all these people together...

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I remember all too well.

I was ranting and raving to my family to days about that.

[talibah-nazahah.livejournal.com]

hahaha!!!! that's funny.. and sad... all at the same time :)

any newspapers / websites that you plan to follow for this? i love bitterlemons.org... bbc does a decent job and i like haaretz...

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I'm following Ha'aretz, Ynet and BBC mostly, also Al-Jazeera, but less so.

Plus it's on the evening news all the time :)